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Associated Press:
Trump Weighs Mobilizing National Guard for Immigration Roundups — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (GARANCE BURKE) — (AP) — The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A suspicious pattern is emerging for how the White House handles its most controversial plans — The White House quickly denied an explosive Associated Press report published Friday morning that said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was seeking to mobilize 100,000 National Guard troops …
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Teresa Welsh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump wouldn't be first president to mobilize National Guard for immigration enforcement
Trump wouldn't be first president to mobilize National Guard for immigration enforcement
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Homeland Security on AP's National Guard: ‘Absolutely Incorrect’
Homeland Security on AP's National Guard: ‘Absolutely Incorrect’
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Team's Growth Forecasts Far Rosier Than Those of CBO, Private Economists — While there are often disparities between the White House and independent agencies on growth projections, they are rarely this large — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has drafted preliminary economic growth forecasts …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Report: Trump transition ordered government economists to cook up rosy growth forecasts
Report: Trump transition ordered government economists to cook up rosy growth forecasts
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Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves — CBS's Face the Nation host John Dickerson was critical of President Donald Trump's haranguing of the press during a Thursday press conference, but told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt …
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CNN:
Officials: Mike Dubke to be named as White House communications director
Officials: Mike Dubke to be named as White House communications director
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
CBS News John Dickerson On The Elite media, President Trump And The Public's Opinion Of Both
CBS News John Dickerson On The Elite media, President Trump And The Public's Opinion Of Both
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Breitbart and The Federalist
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump's entire worldview — John McCain is increasingly mad as hell about President Trump. And on Friday, he went after Trump — hard. — During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Arizona Republican delivered …
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Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Suspect in North Korea killing ‘thought she was taking part in TV prank’ — Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, duped and ‘not aware it was assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents’, says head of police — An Indonesian woman arrested for suspected involvement in the killing …
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Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
In China, a sense of betrayal after the assassination of Kim Jong Nam
In China, a sense of betrayal after the assassination of Kim Jong Nam
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Erin Gloria Ryan / New York Times:
The Downfall of Kellyanne Conway — As Kellyanne Conway sleepwalks her way through a series of increasingly embarrassing interviews, it's been hard not to feel sorry for her. It was difficult not to feel bad for her when “Saturday Night Live” depicted her as a craven hack driven to …
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Jen Psaki / CNN:
My unsolicited advice for Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway and the team
My unsolicited advice for Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway and the team
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Politico
Tim Alberta / Politico:
'I'm a Dead Man Walking' — None of this feels normal. The congressman greets me inside his Washington office wearing a wrinkly collared shirt with its top two buttons undone, faded denim jeans and grungy, navy blue Crocs that expose his leather-textured feet.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
EPA employees call on senators to reject Trump EPA pick: report — In an unusual show of opposition for federal employees, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers have been calling their senators to urge them to reject President Trump's pick to lead their agency, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Democrats: GOP will ‘rue the day’ it pushed Pruitt vote for EPA
Democrats: GOP will ‘rue the day’ it pushed Pruitt vote for EPA
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David Brooks / New York Times:
What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like — I still have trouble seeing how the Trump administration survives a full term. Judging by his Thursday press conference, President Trump's mental state is like a train that long ago left freewheeling and iconoclastic, has raced through indulgent …
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Wall Street Journal:
Jared Kushner Delivers Critique of CNN to Time Warner Executive — Trump's son-in-law and adviser complains that coverage has been slanted against the president — Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, has expressed the administration's deep concerns about CNN's news coverage.
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
A Jewish Reporter Got to Ask Trump a Question. It Didn't Go Well. — Jake Turx is a newly minted White House correspondent for a publication that has never before had a seat in the White House press corps: Ami Magazine, an Orthodox Jewish weekly based in Brooklyn.
Evan McMullin / New York Times:
A Party to the Russian Connection — President Trump's disturbing Russian connections present an acute danger to American national security. According to reports this week, Mr. Trump's team maintained frequent contact with Russian officials, including senior intelligence officers, during the campaign.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump says he's killing it; GOP wants intervention — Top Republicans tell us they're as rattled as ever by President Trump and his White House — and want an intervention. Their gravest long-term concern (beyond the Russia scandal): Trump's devil-may-care effort to run the free world …
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
State Dept. carries out layoffs under Rex Tillerson — While Rex Tillerson is on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, his aides laid off staff at the State Department on Thursday. — Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources …
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Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Flynn Pressured U.N. On Israel Vote Before Taking Office — A month before inauguration, President Donald Trump's would-be national security adviser sought to scupper a U.N. resolution condemning Israel. — Nearly a month before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, Michael Flynn …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Emails: Dem State Leaders Think Obama's New Organizing Army is ‘Grade A Bulls**t’ — It is difficult to overstate just how enraged state Democratic activists and leaders are with Organizing for Action (OFA), the political and community-organizing army that grew out of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Creationist Ken Ham: Dinosaurs fought gladiator battles against humans and giants — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Creationist and Christian fundamentalist Ken Ham believes that in ancient times humans and dinosaurs co-existed with a race of giants and they all did battle with each other in gladiator-style combat.
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Bloomberg:
Conservatives Object to Obamacare Replacement's Tax Credits — Refundable tax credit would help people buy insurance coverage — Debate underscores difficulty in agreeing on a new plan — Some conservative House Republicans are objecting to a major part of the Obamacare replacement outline presented …
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Axios, The Daily Caller, Vox and Balloon Juice
David French / National Review:
The Rise of the Tough-Guy Right — Too many conservatives mistake the admission of inconvenient truths for weakness. — It's not worth spending much time talking about Donald Trump's press conference yesterday. He was the same guy we've watched since he came down that escalator on June 16, 2015.
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Chris Massie / CNN:
Sen. Claire McCaskill says she may face 2018 primary, compares Democratic base to Tea Party — (CNN)Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said on Thursday that she may face a primary before the 2018 mid-term elections, comparing calls for ideological purity from the Democratic base to the conservative Tea Party movement of the Obama era.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Democrats raise questions about Trump's mental health — A growing number of Democrats are openly questioning President Trump's mental health. — Rep. Earl Blumenauer — (D-Ore.) in a floor speech this week called for a review of the Constitution's procedures for removing a president.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Sorry media — this press conference played very different with Trump's supporters — MORE FROM: — Maybe it's not a coincidence that Barnum & Bailey is folding its tents this year. After all, how could the circus possibly compete with Donald Trump? — The president proved once again that he is the greatest show on earth.
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Amie Ferris-Rotman / Foreign Policy:
Russians Are Turning on Donald Trump — One month in, the new White House is looking chaotic and weak — the opposite of what Russia respects in a politician. — MOSCOW - Several months ago, on the outskirts of Moscow, someone took white paint and scrawled a short statement of political protest onto the side of a garbage depot.
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Michael Georgy / Reuters:
Captive Islamic State militant says mass rapes were ‘normal’ — Islamic State militant Amar Hussein says he reads the Koran all day in his tiny jail cell to become a better person. He also says he raped more than 200 women from Iraqi minorities, and shows few regrets.
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Geller Report and Hot Air
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Prep school cancels party at Trump Wollman Rink over parents' protests — More On: — An elite Upper East Side private school's annual ice-skating party at Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park had to be canceled after parents refused to send their kids in protest of the president, sources said.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
19-PAGE GOP pamphlet on OBAMACARE — HILLARY dines with Kate McKinnon in NYC — ‘FINE-TUNED MACHINE’ on display during 77-minute presser — THE JUICE: WARNING to members of the House going home — Listen to Playbook in 90 Seconds http://bit.ly/2lpFYBU ... Subscribe on iTunes http …
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